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FRANKLIN-HOWELL AND E; O. LOUD' OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

LettersPatent Nb; 99,955, dated February 15, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN PEHOILS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent andmaking part of the manual To all whom. may concern:

We, FRANKLIN ROWELL and E. GzLoun, of the city of Springfield, in, the county of Hampden, and

State. of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements'in Lead-Pencils, of which the following is p a specification.

The first part of our invention relates to a series of marksor creases or shoulders upon the stock of the pencil, around the circumference of the same, and ex tending at any desirable distance apart the entire length of the pencil.

lhe'object of thisopart of our invention is to furnish the pencil with such creases-and shoulders or marks in the stock of the same as shall present prominent, sure,

and exactly uniform starting points for the edge of a knife when sharpening the pencil point, thereby giving a more perfect form and finish to the same; also, that the pencil may be more firmly held in the hand while drawing and writing, and more securely carried over the ear.

The second part of our invention relatesto the combination of 'a scale of inches upon each pencil, the inches of which shall be fractionally divided and properly numbered,.t-hereby constituting each pencil a usefor the purpose hereinbei'oreset forth.

ful implement for the, adjustment of dividers, and

measurement of spaces and distances.

Description of the Acconqnmying Drawing, 7

2. The combination of the scale of inches, with the fractional divisions marked and numbered, substantially as and for the purpose herein before setl'orth.

FRANKLIN ,ROWELL. E. 0. LOUD. Witnesses:

A. A. GATES, Pm'nn Krnmm. 

